gnomescan-0.0.2.99 prerelease
July 3, 2006
Hello all,
This week was a tremendous week. I implemented Preview. The preview is divided in two widget : an area widget and a widget encapsulating the area. This allow to implement Simple Preview and Advanced Preview. For flegita, i only implemented simple Preview widget. I drop the rulers since its quite useless for day to day scan. For simple preview, i prefer to implement auto selection and fixed selection. The preview area is drawn using cairo, of course đŸ™‚
I fixed a lot of bugs and implemented a lot of tiny features and API call that make libgnomescan, libgnomescanui and flegita a lot better. This version has a bug in the translation between pixels and millimeter for the scan area.
This version is a prerelease as i go to holidays during 3 weeks. I’ll be back late july. Wish you’ll put ideas in http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScanning/Ideas đŸ™‚
The 0.0.3 release will have a full preview implementation including rotation, fixed selection and maybe autoselection. The 0.0.4 release will have source handling, i.e. flatbed or automatic document feeder (ADF) with mass acquisition support. Then i will start plugins.
Many thanks to neo from #gimp and other for the great help they provide.
As of now, I dedicate the project in memoriam Mark Finlay, a lovely Gnome hacker and funny blogger that passed away late 2003. He did some work on GnomeScan that highly inspire me to do the Preview area.
Have nice holydays.
Update:Something very important imho, i use this software for real use :). I needed to scan sketches and was able to do it using Flegita in the Graphics menu, croping the image to the right size :D. This make me quite confident about the state of the program and this is why i let it rest during 3 week before wake it up late july.
July 4, 2006 at 9:56 am
Oh, it’s cool!!!
I could use it already if there would be a resolution property.
With the latest cairo and gtk+ releases it should be possible to save to PDF directly.
Keep up the good work!
July 4, 2006 at 12:01 pm
As you may see in screenshot, an Action menu is planned including Save, Send by Mail and Print actions. Printing to PDF should do the trick.
Note that currently, flegita select automatically the screen resolution, using gdk call, for Save to file. I should use 300dpi for printing.
July 8, 2006 at 3:05 pm
here’s a use case that i’ve always wanted to work with scanning software:
Alex has a decent nikon negative scanner and wants to scan his photos in at super high resolution, unfortunately his laptop doesn’t have much ram so the scanning software should stream the data directly to disk rather than reading it into ram
July 12, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Another nice function is to be able to scan a document to a PDF. This is currently poorly handled via xsane, but achievable with a combination of tools. See for details:
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/01/26/scanning-to-pdf-in-linux/